The claimant sought damages alleging both defamation and malicious falsehood. The parties appealed against the ruling that in a malicious falsehood claim, the court would accept mutiple meanings of the words used.
Judges:
Longmore, Rafferty LJJ, Sir Stephen Sedley
Citations:
[2013] EWCA Civ 748, [2014] EMLR 5
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
See Also – Cruddas v Calvert and Others QBD 1-May-2013
Application for leave to amend particulars of claim. . .
See Also – Cruddas v Calvert and Others QBD 5-Jun-2013
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Cited by:
See Also – Cruddas v Calvert and Others QBD 26-Jun-2013
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See Also – Cruddas v Calvert and Others QBD 31-Jul-2013
Judgment on the second stage of the trial of a claim for libel and malicious falsehood.
Held: Tugendhat J adopted the meaning ‘more likely than not to cause pecuniary damage’ for ‘calculated to’. . .
See Also – Calvert and Others v Cruddas CA 16-Apr-2014
Renewed application for leave to appeal against damages award in defamation and malicious falsehood. The defendant newspaper had published critical articles, derived from recordings made by undercover reporters, and pleaded justification.
Cited – Stocker v Stocker SC 3-Apr-2019
The parties had been married and divorced. Mrs S told M S’s new partner on Facebook that he had tried to strangle her and made other allegations. Mrs S now appealed from a finding that she had defamed him. Lord Kerr restated the approach to meaning . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Defamation, Torts – Other
Updated: 29 January 2022; Ref: scu.511032
